To Chop or Not to Chop

We don't have much of a front yard but it sure filled up with stuff.

If one looks tonight, except for the huge Japanese fir, everything else is gone.

chopped up and hauled away.

My green leafed, ground cover, which took me 10 years to grow, has been all torn out. The hydrangea, the palm, the rhododendrum...all gone.

The yard is peat mossed and tomorrow is the last day for roof cleaning and and the final touches.

Now begins the next part of the clean up with painting.

All the neighbors had a chance to say hello and tell us how nice the house looks without all the vegetation. We never see anyone as there is no reason to step outside but seems everyone did the same thing, replaced vegetation with peat moss or stone.

My guys are not letting me do anything so life for me is very hard lol

But I managed to put an old chicken to boil for the bouillion and my husband chopped up the potatoes and veggies to put inside the soup.

By nightfall the soup flavor was delicious.

Tonight was Charlie Sheen night. He was roasted and part one, of one and a half men, was aired

with Charlies' funeral and the introduction of Ashton Kutcher , his replacement.

It was hard to see his own cold hearted Mother with crocodile tears and only interested to make money selling his beach house.

Makes you wonder what was so funny people laughed.

Apparently Charlie got hit by a subway or something

Ashton Kutchur is going to buy his house I guess because he likes all the girls there,and the story will continue sans Charlie. I wonder if his ghost will ever appear on the show?

It will be renamed Men since the little boy is big now and collects his own chicks.

I guess my home was not the only one with chopping issues.lol

To chop or not to chop?

To chop or not to chop?

To chop or not to chop?

Only September

Its only September and the yard is full of leaves.

This goes on till the end of November,

on a steep incline.

Nice to live in the bog .

You have flowers, birds, snakes, coons, squirrels, possum, skunks and then the odd coyote and wolf,

Life is always interesting.

Go outside and fill your mouth full of blackberries. Gods" gift to the world.

Yup I will miss this place but I can't keep falling and breaking bones all the time.

Have to know ones' limits and

stay on flat land.

It's not like I have a big family willing to help out.

This work ethic is a quality our parents put into us but they didn't have new technology to compete with like we do with our kids.

We did not say NO to our parents lol.

Everyone I know says the same thing about their kids.

When they are at home everything is ok but once they get married and have bills to pay...

well the rules come out pretty quick, even for visiting parents lol

It makes you wonder how come you are such a sucker

Is it because you love them? lol

Today the roofers are here to clean the roof and the yard around the house and of course Beau is barking.

Instead of taking care of him my son, playing a football video game, just told me to hold him.

I told him my dog is the small one.The guys wanted big dogs so they should take care of them.

Today Tanya and I had a little talk and I told her she is the daughter I never had.

This is how people fall in love with their dogs and they become their children.

Dogs never argue and behave even though they are not in the mood.

That's if you train them right.

None of my dogs ever barked but this time my kids grabbed them as pups and the training didn't happen.

Usually done right it takes three days to toilet train and few months to train doing other things like obedience and no barking, to get a civilized dog.

Children are a joy as babies until they go to school and learn from other kids to be little individuals with 50 year old minds.

It gets worse when the schools begin teaching them what they should eat.

Seems your healthy cooking becomes bad and they don't eat it anymore.

These little quirks never end till they grow up and have children of their own.

Until then the parents are guided by innocence instead of the other way around.lol

Yup times have changed.

In my books however, its better to be a leader than a follower. You don't want to fall off the same cliff everyone else does but sometimes knowing ones' limits and how hard to push is wise.

Looking back, I remember the wise old words of elders who knew how to live. They passed on their wisdom to me and I was happy to know it because it made a lot more sense than some things we are taught today which are wrong but enters your home without your permission

and forces new changes which you need to let happen for learning to take place.

It kinda always skips a generation as ones' kids never listen, as opposed to grandchildren.

Grand children look into your mouths for wisdom their parents don't have lol

Becoming older, falls under other words like, being worn down, humility, wisdom, inner strength, and inner smiles because you know what the end result will be lol

Time may change but people never do.

I guess getting older is like my back yard right now.

Gets kinda messy but

eventually it all cleans back up again.

Have a great day!

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This is what I want to be in my next life. lol

This ballerina has so much control and her movements flow with such ease

it makes it look easy. But it truly requires talent to be this good.

Marienella Nunez